Jack Thompson. Yes, the same whack-job that said:
"There are sociopaths everywhere. Some of them are in Government. Some of them are in Take 2. In fact we got a bunch of sociopaths in Edinburgh, Scotland sitting around in kilts sipping their single malt whiskey spreading racial, hurtful stereotypes in this country."
His newest attack on the video game community, as from Wikipedia...:
"On October 10, 2005 Thompson sent another open letter to members of the press and ESA president, Doug Lowenstein. In it, he proposes a that if someone "create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006" that allows players to play the scenario he has written, he will donate $10,000 to the charity of Take Two's chairman Paul Eibeler's choosing.
The game proposal is considerably violent, following a disgruntled father of a killing victim who takes his revenge upon the games industry which he blames for 'training' the man who killed his son. The father begins a spree of murders in retaliation, attacking the offices of 'Take This' who made the game and killing the chairman 'Paula Eibeler' and her family, before beginning a road trip across the states back to Los Angeles assaulting the law firm 'Blank, Stare' who represent 'Take, This' and various gaming arcades and games stores before ariving at E3 and completing a "monstrously delicious rampage" on the participants.
The content of the concept follows very similarly with Thompson's view on the way games affect people and has proposed a storyline where the victims aren't civilians, but those responsible for releasing other violent games. It also attempts to play against the continued argument from the games industry and media that video games do not turn people into killers, a claim long contested by Thompson.
Unbenkownst to Jack at the time however, a group of modders known as the Fighting Hellfish had released exactly one week prior a San Andreas mod. featuring Jack Thompson himself acting out a remarkably similair scenario, at one point even assassinating Doug Lowenstein. Acting under hypnosis Thompson moonlights as Banman, and takes to the streets in his Bannedwagon to destroy the entire shipment of Rockstar's Bully before it reaches distribution, thereby finally making good on his threat. Jack later assassinates Janet Reno after thwarting her coup, which forces him to confront the realization that his time spent researching violent games have turned him into his own Manchurian Candidate."
Discuss.
"There are sociopaths everywhere. Some of them are in Government. Some of them are in Take 2. In fact we got a bunch of sociopaths in Edinburgh, Scotland sitting around in kilts sipping their single malt whiskey spreading racial, hurtful stereotypes in this country."
His newest attack on the video game community, as from Wikipedia...:
"On October 10, 2005 Thompson sent another open letter to members of the press and ESA president, Doug Lowenstein. In it, he proposes a that if someone "create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006" that allows players to play the scenario he has written, he will donate $10,000 to the charity of Take Two's chairman Paul Eibeler's choosing.
The game proposal is considerably violent, following a disgruntled father of a killing victim who takes his revenge upon the games industry which he blames for 'training' the man who killed his son. The father begins a spree of murders in retaliation, attacking the offices of 'Take This' who made the game and killing the chairman 'Paula Eibeler' and her family, before beginning a road trip across the states back to Los Angeles assaulting the law firm 'Blank, Stare' who represent 'Take, This' and various gaming arcades and games stores before ariving at E3 and completing a "monstrously delicious rampage" on the participants.
The content of the concept follows very similarly with Thompson's view on the way games affect people and has proposed a storyline where the victims aren't civilians, but those responsible for releasing other violent games. It also attempts to play against the continued argument from the games industry and media that video games do not turn people into killers, a claim long contested by Thompson.
Unbenkownst to Jack at the time however, a group of modders known as the Fighting Hellfish had released exactly one week prior a San Andreas mod. featuring Jack Thompson himself acting out a remarkably similair scenario, at one point even assassinating Doug Lowenstein. Acting under hypnosis Thompson moonlights as Banman, and takes to the streets in his Bannedwagon to destroy the entire shipment of Rockstar's Bully before it reaches distribution, thereby finally making good on his threat. Jack later assassinates Janet Reno after thwarting her coup, which forces him to confront the realization that his time spent researching violent games have turned him into his own Manchurian Candidate."
Discuss.
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